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Welcome to my blog. I am married to Tim with a young son who's antics are relayed within this blog as well as my experiments in all forms of papercraft, including cardmaking, scrapbooking, artist trading cards (ATC) and inchies. I hope you enjoy what you see and read and I look forward to reading your comments.

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Friday, 20 June 2014

creative and carnival smiles!

Well we have had a busy week this week with lots to smile about so here is my entry to Annie's smiles. Firstly, last weekend I finally managed to get Alex's cabin bed assembled, and boy was it a challenge doing it in his tiny little box room of a bedroom. I was stiff and aching for days afterwards, but it was worth it as he is so happy with it and he has plans to turn the space under the bed into a 'spy den'. Curtains have been commissioned (thanks Jo!), some furniture chosen, and his Grandpa is lined up to make a desk. It may be a month or more before it is completed, but he is simply happy that the process has started (we promised him this about a year or more ago).

Have you heard of loom bands? It is a craze that seems to be going around school age children at the moment in the UK. You use little coloured rubber bands and weave them together to make a bracelet. With Alex's hypermobile fingers and wrists I thought he might struggle with it, but he has taken to it really well and made three different style bands for the school world cup carnival - this was his first one.

Today was the school world cup carnival, where the children dressed up in the colours of their country and then paraded round the streets near school playing instruments and shouting very loudly. Alex's class were representing Australia so he proudly went to school in his bright yellow shirt, armed with three different loom band bracelets of yellow and green. The carnival was VERY loud and lots of fun as you can tell. That is all from me for now...lots to smile about as you can tell. Have a great weekend.
Love
Caro
x

6 comments:

Three different designs? He's doing better than me!! I'm still on one design my cousins taught me and it doesn't half make my fingers ache! My cousins keep showing me designs online... they want a snoopy made from bands. It'll take me a while but I'm determined!Laura